Aeronautics: Up, Drift, Down

Up from Hour-Havenne, Belgium one dawn last week rose Stratonauts Max
Cosyns and Neere van der Elst, soared nearly ten miles, broke no
records, obtained scientific data, sent out an SOS when their
wireless developed defects, scared half the world into thinking they
were dead, drifted 1,100 mi. in 14 hr. across five countries, landed
safe & sound at Zinovlje, Jugoslavia.